Thanks to all who responded. I will try the suggestions and see if I can get the rest of my script to work.Thanks again for the tips. Will also read up on "len" and "index". Cool stuff!
On Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:57 PM, Sam Starfas via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: Hello,I am hoping you experts can help out a newbie.I have written some python code to gather a bunch of sentences from many files. These sentences contain the content: blah blah blah blah <uicontrol>1-up printing</uicontrol>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah <uicontrol>Preset</uicontrol>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah <uicontrol>Preset</uicontrol> blah blah blah What I want to do is remove the words before the <uicontrol> and after the </uicontrol>. How do I do that in Python? Thanks for any and all help.Sam _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor